Name plate with interchangeable characters



NAME PLATE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE CHARACTERS Filed D86. 28, 1927 [Ll-Z 2 A MIU.

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Patented Jelly 23, 1929.

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EIVIIL JAMMEE, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY.

NAME PLATE WITH INTERGHANGEABLE CHARACTERS.

Application filed December 25, 1827, Serial No. 243,178, and in Germany December 20, 1926.

Name plates comprising one or several lineslots into which the characters forming together a name are to insert, said characters being held by means of one or several holding bars, have become known. For securmg the holding bar in position hooks or grooves have to bespecially made so that the cost of manufacture is increased. A further inconvenience of such name plates is that the pol ished outer surface of the nane plate is spoiled by fixing of the heel: or by the moors either by a soldering process or by riveting. Even when a holding frame is used, adapted to be pushed over the name plate from one side, the cost of manufacture of the name plate is increased and the appearance of the same is spoiled.

According to the invention the inserted characters are secured in the slotor slots by means of a lug at one end of the line slot and of a hook at the other end of the line slot, said lug and hook being stamped out of the name plate when said line slot is being made. T he hig and the eye are then bent rearward. The holding bar has at the one end an extension designed to be inserted into the lug and it has near its other end a notch in the lower edge to be placed over the hook so that the holding bar is securely held and can be easilyv removed for interchanging the characters. The holding bar is preferably fixed by means of one of the screws for fixing the name plate so that the outer appearance of the name plate is not spoiled in the least.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated bv way of eXample, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation showing a name are stamped out of the plate-proper a of suitable material into which charactersb have to be inserted. The plate a has two holes for the screws fixing the plate on the door.

When the slot for the characters I) is being stamped out; a lug a at the one end and a hook a at the other end of the slot are stamped out so that they remain connected with the plate a. This lug a and hook a are subsequently bent rearward.

A holding bar 0 on the rear surface of the plate serves to securely hold the characters I) in the plate a. This holding bar 0 is slightly longer than the slot in the name plate and it has at one end an extension designed to be inserted into the lug a, and near the other end a notch upwardly extending from the lower edge and designed to be placed over it 1e hook 64 Near its left end the holding bar 0 has a hole 0 registering with the-correspending screw hole in the plate a so that the plate a and the holding bar 0 can be fixed on the door by the same screw.

When the plate a has more than two line slots the holding bar 0 is higher as shown in Fig. 3 and has preferably two extensions at one end, two lugs a being arranged on the corresponding end of the slot orslots in the plates.

I claim z 1. A name plate with interchangeable inscriptions con'iprising, in combination with the plate proper having a line slot stamped out, a lug stamped out of the plate at one end of said slot and bent backward, a hook stamped out at the other end of said slot and bent backward, characters inserted in said holding bar having near one of its ends a I screw hole registering with the correspond ing screw hole of the plate to receive one of the fixation screws of said name plate.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

- IEMIL JAMMER. 

